Julie Rutherford
Platform Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJulie Rutherford is a Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, resilient systems and data pipelines for SaaS and education technology. She has driven greenfield platform projects and multi-tenant Airflow-based solutions that balance concurrency and operational cost, and at Astronomer prototyped deferrable operators to optimize async workloads. At NWEA she reduced dead-letter messages by 99% while owning backend ingestion, API delivery, and customer-facing documentation, often acting as scrum master and feature lead. Her background spans performance testing, DevOps automation, and QA practices, and she has a Master’s in Computer Science from Portland State University paired with an English degree from the University of Washington. Based in Seattle, Julie prioritizes team culture and code quality initiatives that shift engineering practices toward robust testing and reliability. She combines systems-level thinking with a communicator’s instinct for clear documentation and stakeholder collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor’s Degree, English Language and Literature/Letters at University of WashingtonMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Portland State University
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Github Skills (23)
apache-airflow10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
machine-learning10
workflow-engine10
apache10
scheduler10
etl10
automation10
dag10
mlops10
airflow10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jarfgit/CS533-OS
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jarfgit/ABC-for-TSP
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 day
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